Kaiser Health News reporter Jessica Marcy talks with Jacob Hacker, the political scientist whose idea of a public health insurance plan to compete with private insurers has been embraced by President Barack Obama. Checking In With Jacob Hacker By Jessica Marcy – Kaiser Health News Political scientist Jacob Hacker created his signature idea for a [...]
Checking In With Wal-Mart’s David Tovar By Jonathan Rau – Kaiser Health News July 1, 2009 Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest private employer, has endorsed a health care overhaul that includes a requirement that employers make some financial contribution toward the health care of their workers. Yesterday, the Arkansas-based company released a letter (.pdf) [...]
By Eric Pianin – Kaiser Health News June 25, 2009 From the beginning, President Barack Obama and his top advisers have sought to portray health care reform not just as another costly entitlement for the poor, but as part of a larger effort to ease the burden of mounting medical costs for the middle class. [...]
New York Times columnist hopes Obama “tunes out” the AMA New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof calls on President Barack Obama to tune out the American Medical Association, which is opposing a public health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers. Instead, he bids the president heed Dr. David Scheiner, what was Mr. [...]
In his June 23 press conference President Barack Obama said health-care reform must control costs and, while he endorsed a public health insurance plan, he did not say he would veto legislation that did not include a public plan. “…we have not drawn lines in the sand, other than that reform has to control costs [...]
Health care industry says it can control soaring costs Representatives of doctors, drug makers, insurers and health-care unions met with President Barack Obama Monday and promised that they could control health-care costs, saving the average family of four $2,500 a year in five years and the nation $2 trillion in ten years In a letter [...]
The Western Washington Chapter of a Physicians for a National Health Program, a group that supports the establishment of a single-payer health-care system for the United States, will hold its monthly meeting this Wednesday evening, Dec. 17. The meeting will focus on responding to President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team’s call for community discussions [...]
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will lead the new White House Office of Health Reform as well as the Department of Health and Human Services. President-elect Barack Obama made the announcement today during a press conference in Chicago. Mr. Obama also announced that Ms. Jeanne Lambrew would serve as deputy director of the White [...]
Seattle Times health reporter Kyung M. Song has a front-page article in today’s paper comparing the health-care reform plans of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.
The Kaiser Family Foundation has created a website where you can compare the presidential candidates’ health-care proposals side-by-side.
Neither party offers health-care reform that Americans want, writes op-ed commentator.
The US health-care system is hobbling the US economy, writes Jacob Hacker, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley in a Sept. 9 op-ed in the Seattle Times.
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